Samsung SCH-L710RWBXAR - Manual (Page 43)

Understanding Your Phone 37
Entering Text
Virtual QWERTY Keyboard
Your phone uses a virtual QWERTY keyboard for text entry.
Use the keyboard to enter letters, punctuation, numbers, and
other characters into text entry fields or applications. Access
the keyboard by touching any text entry field.
The virtual QWERTY keyboard displays at the bottom of the
screen. By default, when you rotate the phone, the screen
orientation updates to display the keyboard at the bottom of
the screen.
Entering Text Using Samsung Keyboard
The Samsung keyboard is a custom virtual QWERTY
keyboard, featuring optional XT9 predictive text. Input
characters by touching the on-screen keys with your finger,
or use speech recognition.
You can enable XT9 predictive text, to have the Samsung
keyboard match your key touches to common words and
displays them. Select a word from the display to insert it into
your text.
Configuring Samsung keyboard
Configure the Samsung keyboard to your preferences.
• For more information, see “Samsung keyboard: Touch beside
Samsung keypad to configure the following options.” on
page 162.
• While entering text, touch and hold , then select .
Entering Upper and Lower Case Letters
The default case is lower case (abc). Enter upper and lower
case alphabet letters by touching the Shift key (
) to
toggle the case, before touching the letter key(s).
• Touch once to switch from abc to Abc mode.
• Touch and hold to switch to ABC mode.
Entering Symbols and Numbers
To enter common symbols, touch to switch to symbol
mode, then touch the corresponding key.
To enter less-common symbols, touch ➔ , then
touch the corresponding key.
Enter numbers by touching , then touching the number
keys.